Web-browser

See also: web-browser, Web browser, web browser, and Webbrowser

English

Noun

Web-browser (plural Web-browsers)

1. Alternative form of web browser.
   • 1994 November 24, David Plotnikoff, “HotWired launches a revolution”, in The Spokesman-Review, 112th year, number 169, Spokane, Wash., Coeur d’Alene, Ida., page E13:

     If you have access to a good graphical Web-browser such as Mosaic, the address is http://www.hotwired.com/ (the trailing slash is often optional).

   • 1994 December 16, David Plotnikoff, “Take a gamble on this newsgroup before you hit Vegas”, in Chicago Tribune, 148th year, number 350, section 7, page 96, column 5:

     Rockin’ the Web: KFJC-FM (89.7), Foothill College’s pioneering alternative-rock station, has a very well-crafted World Wide Web page. Point your Web-browser to http:

   • 1995 January 14, Gannett News Service, “Internet Web to widen in ’95”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page C2:

     But just as on-line services opened Internet news groups to millions of users, all major services plan Web access soon. Prodigy is first, with a Windows Web-browser available on-line at no extra charge on Tuesday.

   • 1995 April 6, Harley Jebens, “Powerhouse Hardware Software”, in XLent (Austin American-Statesman), volume 2, number 14, page 26:

     The Van Halen site (set your Web-browser to “http://vanhalen.warnerrcrds.com/Balance”) is in support of the band’s Balance CD.

   • 1995 May 7, from wire reports, “Baseball junkies find a home on new on-line site”, in The Sun Herald, volume 111, number 219, page D■5, columns 4–5:

     If you have managed to wash the bitter taste of the baseball strike out of your mouth and get back to this business of rooting for the home team, you will certainly want to point your Web-browser at the new big-league site: “Major League Baeball(at)Bat” (cute, eh?).

   • 1996 May 20, The News Journal, 118th year, number 69, Wilmington, Del., page D1:

     With “applets,” what you see using your Web-browser may not be what you’ll get.

   • 1997 February 28, Tim Grobaty, “Oscars on the Web”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Ia., page 2T, column 2:

     In fact, if your Web-browser is equipped with Shockwave, you can hear the music on every page on the movie’s Web site.

   • 2004 January 10, “Great Canadian music, eh? Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan still going strong after 10 years in business”, in Intelligencer Journal, 210th year, number 180, Lancaster, Pa., page A4:

     You can read more about McLachlan at www.sarahmclachlan.com and don’t worry about typing www.barenakedladies.com into your Web-browser, you will only get the band’s site and not the expected risqué content.

   • 2004 March 8, “Free Press Free Stuff: ‘Stars on Ice’ at the Palace”, in Detroit Free Press, page 2C:

     Thousands will pay $63, $51 and $28 but we have 10 sets of four tickets to give away. To enter to win, point your Web-browser to http://www.palacenet.com/freepress and follow the instructions.